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AMP Cap Equity Fund analyst departs, prompts 'sell'

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 13 AUG 2010
... months for the manager. The fund manager suffered from two high profile departures in April, including small cap equity portfolio manager Michael Hughes. "The announcement of Simon Fitzgerald's departure this week indicates to S&P that the manager's ...

Global and Asian mandates up for grabs

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 AUG 2010
... markets. However, the mandate will be broken into two lots. The first will pertain to the Pacific Basin (ex-Japan) equity portfolio, and the second one an emerging markets equity portfolio. Interested fund managers can tender for one or both of the Asian ...

JANA adds to investment team

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUN 2010
JANA Investment Advisers has hired two investment managers and welcomed back another. The asset consultant appointed Domien Beckers to the firm's portfolio construction and research team. Beckers joins the firm from Vanguard where he spent four years ...

The upside of a downside fund

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 22 APR 2010
Boutique fund manager Instreet has developed a new product that helps financial planners and their investors protect their Australian equity portfolios from market swings - without having to switch their equities allocation to cash. The product, Link ...

NZ Super axes GMO mandates

MEDIA RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 19 APR 2010
... timber assets. GMO was appointed to manage: a non-US small-cap mandate in June 2004; a growth-oriented global equity portfolio in February 2005; and a multi-strategy equities mandate in June 2006. This decision does not affect the New Zealand Superannuation ...

UniSuper reviews illiquidity risk

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 16 APR 2010
... near term," he said. For example, Pearce said UniSuper is looking at realisations in its $900 million private equity portfolio. That said, Pearce is not ruling out the possibility of further large mandates in direct investments. "We could probably do ...

Lodestar hires two senior analysts

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 APR 2010
Lodestar Capital Partners has appointed Michael Kelly and Gary Armor as two senior team members of its equities research team. Kelly joins Lodestar from Portfolio Partners where he was a founding partner and helped manage several equity portfolios. ...

SSgA appoints equities head

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2010
State Street Global has appointed Marc Reinganum as head of its active developed market equities team. Based in Boston, Reinganum is responsible for all aspects of active management within the global developed market equity portfolios, and reports to ...

Morningstar buys Aegis

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAR 2010
Morningstar Australasia has agreed to buy Aegis Equities Research from its holding company. Aegis Equities Research was founded in 1999 and services institutions, financial advisers and retail clients. The firm has a web-based research platform that ...

ETS collapse threatens ESG

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 15 MAR 2010
... so it becomes a whole portfolio issue and we were doing a lot of analysis on what impact that would have on an equity portfolio," said Gray. "Whereas the Oppositions proposal, which is a more targeted investment type, is not a whole of economy issue ...